Question

in no more than 500 words

Give a detailed explanation of the agricultural significance of Michael Pollan’s (2001) quote: “Nature supplied the necessary genes or mutations, but without the gardener and the garden to make space for these novelties, they would never have seen the light of day”

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Answer 1

Nature supplied the necessary genes or mutations, but without the gardener and the garden to make space for these novelties, they would never have seen the light of day.

This quote means every single organism living in the nature has the ability to survive, reproduce and contribute something or the other to serve a purpose. The mother nature have provided certain plants with a natural set of genes for increasing their life span (for raising crops_. The mutated set of genes in the plants make them non-viable in the nature so they are eliminated and so they cannot see the sun (cannot undergo photosynthesis) and doesn't have the capacity to produce viable agricultural crops. A gardener can help grow plants with the natural set of genes and can help cultivate wildness carefully and respectfully which means they could see the sun and provide food.